Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting evince-dvi package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.31% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EVINCEDVI-1359399
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 Jul 2017

Introduced: 14 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-1000159  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 evince-dvi.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream evince-dvi package and not the evince-dvi package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Command injection in evince via filename when printing to PDF. This affects versions earlier than 3.25.91.